Utilizing a broad range of sources, including oral history interviews, Beik documents how coal mining families from twenty-five different nationalities banded together to fight for union representation and better lives.

In this study, Bodnar brought together a decade of new scholarship on the Pennsylvania immigrant experience as seen through three groups in Pittsburgh. The book is especially strong on neighborhood settlement patterns and importance of ethnicity and race in industrial Pittsburgh.

Analyzes Ireland and America, and Irish-America during a crucial era of nationalism and political turmoil in the wider Atlantic world. The narrative focuses on Irish immigrants in early national Philadelphia and the forces of social and pluralism, and the effect of ethnicity on early 19th century American politics.

Examines Scranton as a crucible of change and conflict during the industrial revolution, and offers key insights into the process of transition from an agricultural to an industrial economy, and the class tensions that accompanied dramatic social change. The author offers important insights on the notion of citizenry and an emerging world view for the industrial age.

Essays drawn from a 1988 conference commemorating the 350th anniversary of the founding of the New Sweden colony. Interdisciplinary in scope, the volume's contributors include American and European scholars who assess recent trends and place of New Sweden in the field of colonial studies.

This edited 18th-century memoir includes an insightful introductory essay that places Moraley's life and writings in historical context. The memoir itself offers rich insight into religion, social customs, and everyday life in early Philadelphia.

A detailed history of the Jewish community in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, that begins with an extensive examination of Jewish life in the Eastern European regions from which most of Johnstown's immigrants came.

Contrasting turn-of-the-century Jewish life in Poland, Russia, Hungary, and Galicia and the new world of industrial western Pennsylvania, this study also contains useful insights into Jewish immigrant traditions and customs, and the experience of adjusting to industrial America.

Important study of the social identity and work experience of bonded indentured servants. The author stresses the "meaning and consequences of servitude for servants" in the colonial Pennsylvania household economy.

A sprawling historical encyclopedia of voluntary organizations in the city of Philadelphia, including sections, with overviews, on ethnic and racial, religious, social service, and labor organizations; festivals; and hereditary societies.

Rich and growing body of materials on the 57 Irish immigrants who died near Malvern while working for Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad in 1832. Includes materials on their lives and deaths and explores early 19th-century attitudes towards industry, immigration, and disease in Pennsylvania.

This website is dedicated to the commemoration and preservation of the breathtaking murals painted in the 1930s by Croatian artist Maxo Vanka in Millville's Saint Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church in Millville, Pennsylvania.